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knkaliszewski 's review for:
Black Chalk
by Christopher J. Yates
Don't trust NPR.
I finished this book because I was curious to see how it ended, but honestly disliked it from page 30 onward. And, as others have mentioned sticking around for the end was not worth it. The writing was okay at minimum with distractingly bad moment when the author was obviously trying to be 'artsy' but fell flat. I hated all the characters except Emilia, and all turned out to be painfully one dimensional. As others have said the weird subplot of the 'Game Soc' was unneeded and added nothing but weird confusion and lacked a pay off.
I would also like to add, although we are told over and over again how close and of friends these people were, this never shone through once. Throughout the entire book only one or two characters actually seemed to stand being near each other, but once the game began all of them seemed to truly dislike all involved.
There are better mysteries out there. There are better executed books out there.
I finished this book because I was curious to see how it ended, but honestly disliked it from page 30 onward. And, as others have mentioned sticking around for the end was not worth it. The writing was okay at minimum with distractingly bad moment when the author was obviously trying to be 'artsy' but fell flat. I hated all the characters except Emilia, and all turned out to be painfully one dimensional. As others have said the weird subplot of the 'Game Soc' was unneeded and added nothing but weird confusion and lacked a pay off.
I would also like to add, although we are told over and over again how close and of friends these people were, this never shone through once. Throughout the entire book only one or two characters actually seemed to stand being near each other, but once the game began all of them seemed to truly dislike all involved.
There are better mysteries out there. There are better executed books out there.